Introduce yourself to the Community

[Deanna]

Welcome to the Red Hat Learning Community! As we build a diverse community dedicated to collaborative, open source learning, let's get to know more about each other. Reply to this post with details about yourself, your background,  the skills you want to develop (or have developed ), career stories, favorite Red Hat courses, fun facts and anything else you may want to share with your fellow RHLC community members! 

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[Jeff_Schaller]

Who I am:

Jeff Schaller

Where I'm based:

EST5EDT

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

Solving problems with computers!

My favorite toy as a kid:

bicycle or the IBM PC Convertible I learned BASIC on

In My Spare Time, I . . .

10. sleep

20. eat

30. work

40. eat

50. parent

60. homeowner

70. GOTO 10

80. when the bits flip and the planets align properly, I jog or go geocaching

[Scudder]

Who I am:

 Hi! I'm C. Scudder Mead. Like many of you... I am Red Hat.

Where I'm based:

Pensacola, FL USA

My BeachMy workstation:

i7 Lenovo, running Fedora 28 with KVM and some RHEL, i7 7700K, running Fedora 28 and several flavors of RHEL, AMD Hex Core running RHEL 7.5 and Satellite 6.3.3. 3 Macs, etc.

Favorite Course

I haven't taken one in a very long time. I am always in the field.

My favorite instrument as a kid:

Guitar

In My Spare Time, I . . .

Hang Out With My Wife, Read, Game, Fish

My Area of Endeavor:

Satellite architecture and implementations and other platform focused work.

[Scudder]

Who I am:

 Hi! I'm C. Scudder Mead. Like many of you... I am Red Hat.

Where I'm based:

Pensacola, FL USA

My BeachMy workstation:

i7 Lenovo, running Fedora 28 with KVM and some RHEL, i7 7700K, running Fedora 28 and several flavors of RHEL, AMD Hex Core running RHEL 7.5 and Satellite 6.3.3. 3 Macs, etc.

Favorite Course

I haven't taken one in a very long time. I am always in the field.

My favorite instrument as a kid:

Guitar

In My Spare Time, I . . .

Hang Out With My Wife, Read, Game, Fish

My Area of Endeavor:

Satellite architecture and implementations and other platform focused work.

[Kami]

I have 20+ years of Information Technology experience. I have worked in the Semiconductor and Software Technologies sectors. I started out my learning in engineering college  before moving into system admin and engineering. I have a long-time proponent of Linux and Open Source Software. I hold  few certifications as well as a Masters degree in Information Systems.

[AnubhavDhingra]

Greetings Everyone,,,
I am a Compute and Storage - Solution Architect with around 14 yrs experience and an Openstack and RHV Enthusiast, so developing my skills on the same.

Currently based in Tanzania, Africa. 

[AbrahamArellano]

Hi all,

I'm Abraham Arellano working as a Middelware Consultant in the EMEA region and based in Germany.

I'm application specialist focused on our main middleware products: Fuse, EAP, BRMS, AMQ and Openshift. Also love coding and support other colleagues when needed.

I'm really happy to have a platform like this to share knowledge and make it accessible for all!

Regards!

[Tavares]

Who I am:

A Brazilian IT enthusiast with 13+ years of professional experience in Linux/Unix, Virtualization, Cloud (IaaS and PaaS), Automation, Cluster, Containers, High Availability, VDI and most recently Devops.

Where I'm based:

Brasília, Brazil. (The most beautiful city in Brazil)

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

DevOps and Cloud!

The skills you want to develop
DevOps, Cloud (PaaS), OpenShift, Ansible, Automation, CI/CD.

I want to become a RHCA in 12 months! 

[Chris_Herring]

Hello all,

Chris Herring here and I am the Department Chair of the Systems Security & Analysis program at FTCC.  We have partnered with Red Hat for several years teaching their curriculumn.  Looking forward to this project!

[fgiorget]

Hi all, I am Fernando from Sao Paulo / Brazil and I work with the AMQ Interconnect Quality Engineering team at Red Hat. I have worked for lots of years as a software engineer and I am joining this community to learn and exchange experiences on middleware, amq, programming, automation, linux and any other cool topic.

[jread]

Hello World ;) 

I'm a Alliance Solution Architect at Red Hat, and I work with the public cloud partners - the (Certified Cloud & Service Provider (CCSP) community). 

[Joe_Foss]

Who I am:

Recovering Nerd

Where I'm based:

Denver, CO

My workstation:

Dell workstation but I use dual portrait monitors and left & right handed trackballs

The discipline I enjoy the most is:

SRE 

My favorite course to teach:

How to build with Legos to my kids

Highest Red Hat Certification:

RHCSA, RHCSV

The teaching tool I cannot do without:

A pencil or dry erase marker

My favorite toy as a kid:

Lego.

Sports I played:

I am sunlight adverse

Favorite memories:

Watching the milkyway rise over the rockies at 14k feet

Watching the Enterprise  as an .mpeg fly across the screen  in grey scale  NCSA browser on a SUN terminal

Getting my first  response on how to debug C64 basic on a BBS when I was 14.

Watching my kids be born